- 7:55 PM tonymorganlive - “If you are a pastor in the South, you have to be strapped [own a gun].”
- 7:56 PM tonymorganlive - “When the alarm goes off, you can’t be passive.”
- 7:57 PM tonymorganlive - “The message to the Church is this: you better wake up!”
- 7:58 PM tonymorganlive - “I believe the Church’s best days are ahead of her.”
- 7:59 PM tonymorganlive - (You should see the woman who is trying to sign everything that Perry is saying. Her arms are flailing about.)
- 8:00 PM tonymorganlive - “What is it that God wants to do in my church?”
- 8:01 PM tonymorganlive - “I didn’t say ‘What is it that the deacons or the bloggers want to do in my church?’”
- 8:03 PM tonymorganlive - “The ‘older brother’ is sitting in the seat of leadership in our churches.” (referring to the story of the Prodigal Son)
- 8:06 PM tonymorganlive - “The older son didn’t have the heart of the father in him.”
- 8:06 PM tonymorganlive - “At conferences, there’s too much inspiration and not enough revelation.”
- 8:06 PM tonymorganlive - “If you don’t have a vision, you’re not a leader.”
- 8:07 PM tonymorganlive - “The only way we can’t get a vision from God is to spend time with God.”
- 8:08 PM tonymorganlive - “You gotta’ be stupid to plant a church.”
- 8:09 PM tonymorganlive - “God used unschooled, ordinary men to change the world.”
- 8:10 PM tonymorganlive - “People say, ‘The music is too loud.’ Well, you’re going to hate Heaven.”
- 8:11 PM tonymorganlive - “We have to pray and work.”
- 8:12 PM tonymorganlive - “We have to put effort into it.”
- 8:14 PM tonymorganlive - “If it’s God’s will, it’s God’s bill.”
- 8:14 PM tonymorganlive - “This is my opinion…but I’m right.”
- 8:15 PM tonymorganlive - “Most churches stick their kids and students in the basement with a woman that knew Moses.”
- 8:19 PM tonymorganlive - “We’re going going to try to listen to God and do what he says.”
- 8:19 PM tonymorganlive - “What are the barriers that stand in our way?”
- 8:19 PM tonymorganlive - “Did you know there are some people that don’t want the church to grow?”
- 8:20 PM tonymorganlive - “I thought the food fight in the grave yard was a great idea.”
- 8:21 PM tonymorganlive - “Here’s how you know you’ve got a vision from God: It makes people mad.”
- 8:21 PM tonymorganlive - “Christians are the meanest people in the world.”
- 8:26 PM tonymorganlive - 3 problems… #1 = “Refusal to change.”
- 8:27 PM tonymorganlive - “Pastors, we can’t lead a church according to personal preferences.”
- 8:28 PM tonymorganlive - “The church in Acts grew because it was willing to change.”
- 8:29 PM tonymorganlive - “Don’t change things just to change things. That’s stupid.”
- 8:30 PM tonymorganlive - #2 = “Jealousy.”
- 8:30 PM tonymorganlive - “Jealousy will stop a church from growing faster than anything.”
- 8:31 PM tonymorganlive - “Is it all about the numbers? I think it is.”
- 8:32 PM tonymorganlive - #3 = “Lack of understanding.”
- 8:33 PM tonymorganlive - “The same God that was in the book of Acts is in your church.”
- 8:34 PM tonymorganlive - “When we make church growth a formula, we tell God we don’t need him.”
- 8:34 PM tonymorganlive - “We can prepare for a move of God, but we can’t plan for it.”
- 8:34 PM tonymorganlive - “What do we want to celebrate?”
- 8:39 PM tonymorganlive - “We always like to condemn the sins we’re not committing.”
- 8:39 PM tonymorganlive - “We don’t try to be relevant. We preach the Gospel.”
- 8:40 PM tonymorganlive - “Aren’t we all sinners that needed a Savior?”
- 8:41 PM tonymorganlive - “Jesus did not die for your political party.”
- 8:41 PM tonymorganlive - “We yell at lost people for acting like lost people.”
- 8:42 PM tonymorganlive - “At the end of the day, all I want to see is for people to meet Jesus.”
- 8:42 PM tonymorganlive - “Because I haven’t forgotten what it feels like to be lost.”
- 8:43 PM tonymorganlive - “Jesus saved me, and he changed me.”
- 8:43 PM tonymorganlive - “That’s what we celebrate: changed lives.”
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innovate: Perry Noble
2 Commentsinnovate: Ed Stetzer
1 Comment- 11:16 AM tonymorganlive - “Unconfessed sin impacts the power of God in our churches.”
- 11:16 AM tonymorganlive - (Ed is looking great btw… I think we’re going to be able to share clothes soon. Very exciting.)
- 11:18 AM tonymorganlive - “I don’t look promiscuous. I got that covered.” :-)
- 11:19 AM tonymorganlive - “Before God, sin is sin.”
- 11:19 AM tonymorganlive - “God change me. God forgive me. God make me right.”
- 11:21 AM tonymorganlive - (Love this. Ed is talking about sin with church leaders. We are not perfect. We still wrestle with sin. We don’t wear our sin on our sleeves, but we still sin. And there are consequences to our sin. God change me. God forgive me.)
- 11:22 AM tonymorganlive - “Compromise is Satan’s desire.”
- 11:23 AM tonymorganlive - “If Satan cannot compromise our beliefs, he’s happy to settle for compromising our character.”
- 11:24 AM tonymorganlive - “We need to be Gospel centered and repentance filled lives.”
- 11:26 AM tonymorganlive - “Secret sins are only that way for a short time.”
- 11:26 AM tonymorganlive - “God has a desire to bring secret sins out.”
- 11:27 AM tonymorganlive - “If you’re not repenting of your sin, your sin will catch up with you.”
- 11:27 AM tonymorganlive - “If you won’t come to repentance, God will bring you to repentance.”
- 11:28 AM tonymorganlive - “We have become too comfortable with sin in our lives.”
- 11:29 AM tonymorganlive - “Private sin can deliver the community of faith into public defeat.”
- 11:30 AM tonymorganlive - “Pastor, your sin saps your church’s spiritual power.”
- 11:31 AM tonymorganlive - “Just as faith is best lived out in community, so is sin. Get broken or God will break you.”
- 11:32 AM tonymorganlive - “The church’s toleration of sin distracts it from the mission God has called it to.”
- 11:38 AM tonymorganlive - “Stop trying to convince yourself that the sin in your life won’t impact the mission of your church.”
- 11:38 AM tonymorganlive - “A return to God’s mission begins with a repentance to God’s standard.”
- 11:43 AM tonymorganlive - The Bible says: “Sin is crouching at the door.”
- 11:44 AM tonymorganlive - “Your life is filled with sin. My life is filled with sin, but that doesn’t mean we have to be comfortable with it.”
- 11:46 AM tonymorganlive - “It’s so easy to think: I’m glad I’m not like him. Well, you are just like him.” (talking about Ted Haggard)
- 11:47 AM tonymorganlive - “We find ways to justify our own sin.”
- 11:48 AM tonymorganlive - “When I spoke here last year, I weighed 117 pounds more than I do today. I had to deal with the sin in my life.”
- 11:50 AM tonymorganlive - (This is very powerful. Ed is sharing his story. I’m not going to try to summarize here. You’ll need to hear it for yourselves at some point.)
- 11:55 AM tonymorganlive - “We’re spending too much time in the work of the Lord rather than with the Lord of the work.”
- 11:56 AM tonymorganlive - “Listen to the Lord. He’ll convict you. And tomorrow you’ll need to do it again.”
Andy Stanley: Making Vision Stick
2 Comments- 1:07 PM tonymorganlive - (Andy is going with the “tucked” look today. He went with the “untucked” look yesterday. He’s very versatile.)
- 1:07 PM tonymorganlive - “Vision is that mental picture of what could be and should be.”
- 1:09 PM tonymorganlive - “Leaders like really, really small books.” (That’s true. Publishers haven’t figured that out yet.)
- 1:10 PM tonymorganlive - “State your vision simply.”
- 1:10 PM tonymorganlive - “Memorable is portable.”
- 1:11 PM tonymorganlive - “To make your vision simple, it can’t be complete.”
- 1:13 PM tonymorganlive - Obama’s vision = “Change.”
- 1:15 PM tonymorganlive - “Making vision simple takes a long, long time.”
- 1:18 PM tonymorganlive - “We’re going to create a church that unchurched people love to attend.” = North Point’s original vision
- 1:19 PM tonymorganlive - “We kind of think that all churches should be churches that people like to attend.” (laughter.)
- 1:20 PM tonymorganlive - “We want to make sure they get offended by Jesus, not by everything else we do.”
- 1:21 PM tonymorganlive - “What are you trying to do?”
- 1:22 PM tonymorganlive - “You have to cast vision convincingly.”
- 1:23 PM tonymorganlive - “Your vision needs to be a solution to a problem.”
- 1:24 PM tonymorganlive - “What would go undone if your ministry ceased to exist?”
- 1:26 PM tonymorganlive - “Present the problem. That makes people lean in.”
- 1:27 PM tonymorganlive - “We don’t need another church. We need a different kind of church.”
- 1:28 PM tonymorganlive - “Your vision is a solution to a problem.”
- 1:31 PM tonymorganlive - “You have to explain why and why now.”
- 1:33 PM tonymorganlive - “Repeat vision regularly.”
- 1:35 PM tonymorganlive - (fyi… There are over 100 people watching me take notes live. Too bad I can’t type fast enough to keep up with everything Andy is saying. Sorry.)
- 1:36 PM tonymorganlive - “Celebrate vision systematically. The things that get celebrated get repeated. If you’re a parent, you know this.”
- 1:38 PM tonymorganlive - “Nothing reinvigorates vision like a story.”
- 1:39 PM tonymorganlive - “You can’t argue with a story.”
- 1:42 PM tonymorganlive - ”Where in your world do you celebrate what God has told you to do?”
- 1:42 PM tonymorganlive - “You have to embrace the vision personally. It has to come from your heart. You have to embrace it publicly.”
- 1:46 PM tonymorganlive - “I’ve asked for this to be your lifestyle. I want you to know it’s our lifestyle…and I’ll let you know when it’s not.”
- 1:46 PM tonymorganlive - “New projects, programs and products. New is often a distraction from what’s more important.”
- 1:47 PM tonymorganlive - “Is this an easy, obvious, strategic step toward community?” = how North Point determines whether or not to add something new
- 1:48 PM tonymorganlive - “What are your leaders praying for? That tells you what’s on the leader’s heart.”
- 1:49 PM tonymorganlive - “If there’s no one praying for lost people, that’s a vision issue.”
- 1:53 PM tonymorganlive - “What we’re doing is hard. If it feels like it’s hard, it’s because it’s hard.”
- 1:56 PM tonymorganlive - (Andy is really passionate about challenging and encouraging church leaders.)
- 1:59 PM tonymorganlive - Charles Stanley said this to Andy about the leaders gathered here: “What you are doing is so important.”
- 1:59 PM tonymorganlive - “What you are doing is hard, but what you are doing is important.”
- 1:59 PM tonymorganlive - (Thanks for joining me. Pray for these leaders here.)
Andy Stanley: Listening, Learning & Leading
9 Comments- 3:46 PM tonymorganlive - “I don’t see things until they happen.” (referring to the song & dance before he spoke.)
- 3:47 PM tonymorganlive - “Systems create behaviors.”
- 3:51 PM tonymorganlive - “Leadership is not about making decision on your own. It’s about owning decisions once they are made.”
- 3:51 PM tonymorganlive - “As leaders, we gravitate to voices we want to hear.”
- 3:52 PM tonymorganlive - “Leaders become insulated and isolated…and they like it.”
- 3:54 PM tonymorganlive - “The leader shouldn’t make all the decisions. The leader should just make sure the decisions are good ones.”
- 3:55 PM tonymorganlive - “You are probably not the smartest person in the organization. You’re just the leader.”
- 3:57 PM tonymorganlive - “You have got to create a mechanism to listen to the right people.”
- 3:58 PM tonymorganlive - “What and who you listen to will determine what you do.”
- 3:59 PM tonymorganlive - “Your private decisions will be judged publicly.
- 4:03 PM tonymorganlive - (Andy is talking about the decision process of cutting budgets during the recession.)
- 4:04 PM tonymorganlive - “The more sense of input that people have, the less the push back.”
- 4:05 PM tonymorganlive - “Leaders are attracted to environments where ideas and opinions are heard.”
- 4:05 PM tonymorganlive - “If you want great leaders, you need to create systems for listening to great leaders.”
- 4:06 PM tonymorganlive - “Leaders want more than assignments. They want input into the decision-making process.”
- 4:07 PM tonymorganlive - “Leaders want to influence their own destinies.” [amen.]
- 4:08 PM tonymorganlive - “Leaders who refuse to listen will eventually be surrounded by people who have nothing important to say.”
- 4:09 PM tonymorganlive - (oh my… I hope you’re paying attention. This is good stuff. It’s so true.)
- 4:10 PM tonymorganlive - “The wisest man in the world [King Solomon] had the most to say about getting good counsel.”
- 4:13 PM tonymorganlive - (Andy is talking about the challenges of a highly hierarchical organizational structure.)
- 4:15 PM tonymorganlive - “Eventually a seniority structure leaves the seniors in charge.”
- 4:16 PM tonymorganlive - “Your structure has to change or your structure will impede information flow.”
- 4:20 PM tonymorganlive - “I don’t want anyone to live with the frustration that I used to live with in the lower levels of the organization.”
- 4:20 PM tonymorganlive - “You have to rethink your systems.”
- 4:21 PM tonymorganlive - “Please don’t live with an organizational structure that impedes information flow.”
- 4:23 PM tonymorganlive - (I could listen to this type of leadership, systems thinking all day long. Great stuff.)
- 4:23 PM tonymorganlive - “You want the best thinkers and the most strategic people at the table with you.”
- 4:24 PM tonymorganlive - “Fairness ended in the Garden of Eden. Never shoot for fair. When you shoot for fair, you’ll be unjust. Shoot for right.”
- 4:27 PM tonymorganlive - (Andy is talking through North Point’s current organizational structure.)
- 4:28 PM tonymorganlive - “You need to listen deep in your organization. That doesn’t mean you have to meet with everyone in the organization.”
- 4:32 PM tonymorganlive - (Now Andy is talking about how he connects with about 150 volunteers on a quarterly basis.)
- 4:34 PM tonymorganlive - “Resist the urge to lead every meeting you attend.”
- 4:34 PM tonymorganlive - “What we don’t want to hear is generally what we need to hear.”
- 4:35 PM tonymorganlive - “The people we don’t want to hear from are the people we often need to hear from most.”
- 4:36 PM tonymorganlive - (Session is concluding. Battery is dying. Continue the conversation and questions. I’ll catch up with you later.)
10 Jobs that I Will Never Take
14 CommentsEarlier this week, I posted the 10 Jobs I’d Consider Taking Now that I Don’t Work at a Church. I thought it might be helpful for you to also see the jobs that I would never consider taking no matter how much you paid me. With that, here are the:
10 Jobs that I Will Never Take
- Dentist
- Wal-Mart greeter
- Yard boy
- Proctologist
- Country music singer
- Personal trainer
- Missionary to Nebraska
- Cliff diver
- Clown
- NASCAR mechanic
Again, you can determine what this list says about who I am. Or, feel free to share your own list.
Catalyst West: Perry Noble
4 Comments- 8:38 PM tonymorganlive - Perry started talking about the other speakers. It was funny. You missed it.
- 8:40 PM tonymorganlive - “On the third situp I parted her hair.”
- 8:42 PM tonymorganlive - “Hey man, have you seen my Twitter?”
- 8:43 PM tonymorganlive - “The size of the vision God will give me is directly related to the amount of pain and discomfort I’m willing to endure.”
- 8:45 PM tonymorganlive - “The reason we experience pain is to understand his provision.”
- 8:46 PM tonymorganlive - “Trust him.”
- 8:48 PM tonymorganlive - “If you’ve been called to ministry, God’s hand is on you.”
- 8:50 PM tonymorganlive - “If you walked up to me and said ‘I like you but your wife is ugly,’ I’d punch you in the throat.”
- 8:51 PM tonymorganlive - (Perry just did his TV evangelist impersonation.)
- 8:52 PM tonymorganlive - “God said, ‘I don’t like those people either, Perry.’”
- 8:52 PM tonymorganlive - “I got to go to my first deacons meeting.”
- 8:53 PM tonymorganlive - “Dryness will always lead to desperation.”
- 8:54 PM tonymorganlive - “The Savior is trying to teach you and me who he is.”
- 8:57 PM tonymorganlive - “I don’t want to preach nice sermons.”
- 8:57 PM tonymorganlive - “Believe him.”
- 9:01 PM tonymorganlive - “God said, ‘I need you to feel what I feel, so you can do what I need you to do.’”
- 9:03 PM tonymorganlive - “Why do leaders run from big vision from God?”
- 9:03 PM tonymorganlive - “Leaders, we don’t have a hard time teaching on the sovereignty of God. We just have a hard time believing it.”
- 9:04 PM tonymorganlive - “There are people who are obsessed with discovery rather than development.”
- 9:05 PM tonymorganlive - “You feel stuck because you’re not ready for the next level.”
- 9:05 PM tonymorganlive - “Leadership is as easy as listening to God.”
- 9:06 PM tonymorganlive - “We don’t know what we’re doing?”
- 9:06 PM tonymorganlive - “Moses didn’t have a 40-year strategic plan.”
- 9:07 PM tonymorganlive - “God led Moses one step at a time.”
- 9:08 PM tonymorganlive - “If we got more concerned with repentance rather than attendance, revival would sweep our nation.”
- 9:08 PM tonymorganlive - “If you haven’t had a sleepless night about vision, you haven’t heard from God.”
- 9:08 PM tonymorganlive - “Cheese biscuits bring you closer to God.”
- 9:09 PM tonymorganlive - “What would you be willing to attempt for God if you knew you couldn’t fail?”
- 9:10 PM tonymorganlive - “Only when we surrender do we experience the supernatural.”
- 9:10 PM tonymorganlive - “I believe that God still heals people.”
- 9:10 PM tonymorganlive - “I dropped out of cemetary. I didn’t even finish.”
- 9:13 PM tonymorganlive - “We just consistently obeyed Jesus and, when we were ready for it, he blew our freakin’ minds.”
- 9:13 PM tonymorganlive - “We’re the church that’s known as the place where the ’sinners’ go.”
- 9:14 PM tonymorganlive - “The kid said, ‘I want to go back to the damn church.’ I said, ‘Get his name because he’s going to be on staff someday.’”
- 9:15 PM tonymorganlive - “Do you believe God has spoken a vision into your life?”
- 9:15 PM tonymorganlive - “Honor him.”
- 9:15 PM tonymorganlive - “Finish what you started.”
- 9:18 PM tonymorganlive - “She just stood there waiting for something to happen.”
- 9:18 PM tonymorganlive - “Don’t give up.”
- 9:20 PM tonymorganlive - “Don’t you dare give up on the God that’s never given up on you.”
Catalyst West: Craig Groeschel
1 Comment- 3:54 PM tonymorganlive - Jud is introducing Craig from LifeChurch.tv.
- 3:55 PM tonymorganlive - (Just in case you didn’t know, Craig is the most handsome pastor in America.)
- 3:55 PM tonymorganlive - “I was taught and I thought” that’s the name of the talk.
- 3:57 PM tonymorganlive - “What believe determines what we do.”
- 3:58 PM tonymorganlive - “Do not be conformed any longer to the pattern of the American church.”
- 3:59 PM tonymorganlive - “I was taught the church should be a safe place, but I’m learning the church should be dangerous again.”
- 4:00 PM tonymorganlive - “We’ve been inviting people to a very safe God.”
- 4:02 PM tonymorganlive - “You are called by God to preach a very dangerous message.”
- 4:02 PM tonymorganlive - “Preach Christ.”
- 4:05 PM tonymorganlive - “He was different in the presence of God.”
- 4:05 PM tonymorganlive - “Don’t trust the package. Trust the power of the Gospel.”
- 4:07 PM tonymorganlive - “Practical Athiests = People who believe in God, but act like he doesn’t exist.”
- 4:07 PM tonymorganlive - “Lukewarm pastors build lukewarm churches.”
- 4:09 PM tonymorganlive - “I was taught was to build my church, but I’ve learned my highest calling is to build His Kingdom.”
- 4:11 PM tonymorganlive - “My pastor says your pastor doesn’t preach the Truth.”
- 4:12 PM tonymorganlive - “I was competitive with churches in my community.”
- 4:12 PM tonymorganlive - “I was building my own little kingdom more than I was building His Kingdom.”
- 4:13 PM tonymorganlive - “Build your church on what you’re about and not what you’re not about.”
- 4:13 PM tonymorganlive - “Don’t put others down.”
- 4:14 PM tonymorganlive - “One of my important missions in life is to unite the Church.”
- 4:15 PM tonymorganlive - (LifeChurch.tv offers all of their resources for free.)
- 4:16 PM tonymorganlive - “We can do more together.”
- 4:18 PM tonymorganlive - “I was taught that success is only found in the big numbers, but I’m learning that the scorecard is changing.”
- 4:18 PM tonymorganlive - “You can offer free beer and draw a crowd.”
- 4:19 PM tonymorganlive - “I was driven by the numbers.”
- 4:20 PM tonymorganlive - “Don’t blame yourself the declines, or you might be tempted to take credit for the increases.”
- 4:20 PM tonymorganlive - “Find your identity in Christ.”
- 4:21 PM tonymorganlive - “Otherwise, you’ll be preaching to bring people in rather than to glorify God.”
- 4:21 PM tonymorganlive - “We have to redefine the win.”
- 4:22 PM tonymorganlive - “There are 4 billion people who need Christ. How can we claim to be a megachurch? We are a small church with a megavision.”
- 4:23 PM tonymorganlive - “People want to join a big mission.”
- 4:25 PM tonymorganlive - “You may agree or disagree. I don’t really care a whole lot.”
- 4:26 PM tonymorganlive - Line 1 = “I believe in the Gospel enough to benefit from it.”
- 4:27 PM tonymorganlive - Line 2 = “I believe in the Gospel enough to contribute comfortably.”
- 4:27 PM tonymorganlive - Line 3 = “I believe in the Gospel enough to give my life to it.”
- 4:28 PM tonymorganlive - “What kind of message am I preaching and living?”
- 4:29 PM tonymorganlive - “If you stay the same, maybe you don’t really know Him.”
- 4:30 PM tonymorganlive - (Craig just did the worm.)
- 4:30 PM tonymorganlive - (That was a pretty powerful message.)
Catalyst West: Erwin McManus
3 Comments- 1:43 PM tonymorganlive - Erwin just took the platform. He has an interesting suspender thing happening with his wardrobe.
- 1:45 PM tonymorganlive - “There has never been one ordinary child born on this planet.”
- 1:45 PM tonymorganlive - “Why is it that so many of us end up leading ordinary lives?”
- 1:46 PM tonymorganlive - “We’re supposed to be unleashing people to do good.”
- 1:46 PM tonymorganlive - “The church has become more of a prison than a portal.”
- 1:50 PM tonymorganlive - (There’s a dance team performing right now. I think I should be on a dance team.)
- 1:54 PM tonymorganlive - “We can awaken God-given dreams inside others.”
- 1:56 PM tonymorganlive - “There are a lot of people who are pursuing dreams that don’t fit their lives.”
- 1:56 PM tonymorganlive - “There are other people who aren’t pursuing dreams that do fit their lives.”
- 1:57 PM tonymorganlive - “Is there a dream inside of you that’s waiting to come to life?”
- 1:58 PM tonymorganlive - (He just took a shot at the Cleveland Browns. That’s not right.)
- 2:04 PM tonymorganlive - “All of us have dreams inside of us that will never come to fruition unless we come together in community.”
- 2:06 PM tonymorganlive - “There was nothing wrong with me physically. I was just soul sick.”
- 2:18 PM tonymorganlive - (There’s power in story.)
- 2:18 PM tonymorganlive - “What would happen if all of us chose to live heroic lives?”
- 2:20 PM tonymorganlive - “I love when it looks dangerous but it’s not.”
- 2:24 PM tonymorganlive - “We must jump and step into that moment of fear and trust God.”
- 2:25 PM tonymorganlive - “In small packages, there are great dreams.”
Catalyst West: Jud Wilhite
1 Comment- 5:06 PM tonymorganlive - Jud pastors a great church in Vegas.
- 5:07 PM tonymorganlive - “What do you see when you look in the mirror?”
- 5:12 PM tonymorganlive - Words Jud has wrestled with: guilty, ugly, small, alone, failure, not enough
- 5:12 PM tonymorganlive - “Until we settle the identify issue in our lives, it’ll never be enough.”
- 5:13 PM tonymorganlive - “In ministry, there is no ‘there’ there.”
- 5:17 PM tonymorganlive - “Do you believe that God really loves you?”
- 5:18 PM tonymorganlive - “Many Christian leaders are truly the worst when it comes to understanding God’s love in our lives.”
- 5:19 PM tonymorganlive - “We should talk to ourselves more than we listen to ourselves.” (Using God’s Word.)
- 5:20 PM tonymorganlive - “Our failures don’t ruin us forever.”
- 5:21 PM tonymorganlive - “Start celebrating the victories of others.”
- 5:22 PM tonymorganlive - “At Central, I’m not the most gifted leader on the church staff. And I love that.”
- 5:27 PM tonymorganlive - “God said, ‘I want you to serve me.’ Be faithful to that calling in your life.”
- 5:33 PM tonymorganlive - “What kind of difference can you make if you just decide to let God use you?”
- 5:34 PM tonymorganlive - “In Christ.”
Catalyst West: Guy Kawasaki
4 Comments- 3:13 PM tonymorganlive - Guy Kawasaki is opening his session by taking some shots at Microsoft.
- 3:14 PM tonymorganlive - Guy has permission to use “suck” and “crappy” in this talk.
- 3:15 PM tonymorganlive - “I’m running God’s operating system.”
- 3:15 PM tonymorganlive - “Make meaning.”
- 3:15 PM tonymorganlive - “Make the world a better place.”
- 3:18 PM tonymorganlive - “Make a mantra.”
- 3:20 PM tonymorganlive - Guy is making fun of how we develop our mission statements.
- 3:23 PM tonymorganlive - “Are there two or three words that can define your church?”
- 3:23 PM tonymorganlive - “Jump to the next curve.”
- 3:25 PM tonymorganlive - “Most organizations define what they do by what they do.”
- 3:25 PM tonymorganlive - “If you define your organization by what you currently do, you’ll miss the next curve.”
- 3:26 PM tonymorganlive - “Roll the dicee.”
- 3:30 PM tonymorganlive - DICEE = Deep, Intelligent, Complete, Elegant, Emotive
- 3:30 PM tonymorganlive - “Don’t worry, be crappy.”
- 3:31 PM tonymorganlive - “If we would have waited for everything, we whould have never shipped.”
- 3:31 PM tonymorganlive - “In technology, we ship and then we test.”
- 3:31 PM tonymorganlive - “Don’t wait for the perfect world.”
- 3:32 PM tonymorganlive - “Polarize people.”
- 3:32 PM tonymorganlive - “If you try to create something that appeals to everyone, you will end up with mediocrity.”
- 3:34 PM tonymorganlive - “Let 100 flowers blossom.”
- 3:35 PM tonymorganlive - “You may find that people who are not your intended audience end up loving your church.”
- 3:36 PM tonymorganlive - “Desktop publishing saved Apple Macintosh.”
- 3:36 PM tonymorganlive - “One of the reasons I believe in God is that there’s no other explanation of Apple’s survival.”
- 3:37 PM tonymorganlive - “If people don’t get it in the first 15 minutes, they’ll never get it.”
- 3:37 PM tonymorganlive - “Churn baby, churn.”
- 3:38 PM tonymorganlive - “Once you ship, you have to listen again.”
- 3:38 PM tonymorganlive - “Niche thyself.”
- 3:44 PM tonymorganlive - “How is your church unique and adding value?”
- 3:44 PM tonymorganlive - “Follow the 10-20-30 rule.”
- 3:44 PM tonymorganlive - “You need to learn how to pitch.”
- 3:44 PM tonymorganlive - “Life is a pitch.”
- 3:47 PM tonymorganlive - “10 slides. 20 minutes. 30 point font.”
- 3:48 PM tonymorganlive - “Don’t let the bozos grind you down.”
- 3:56 PM tonymorganlive - “I picked my family over money.”
- 3:57 PM tonymorganlive - Check out church.alltop.com.
- 3:57 PM tonymorganlive - Twayer = Twitter + Prayer
- 3:58 PM tonymorganlive - “Dear God: Thank you for this opportunity to serve. Let your innovation shine & make the world a better place for all people. Amen! #catwest”








